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‘Double Meaning in the Popular Negro Blues’ choose

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[US] G. Johnson ‘Double Meaning in the Popular Negro Blues’ in Jrnl Abnormal & Social Psychology Apr.-June 14: A Negro youth, wishing to express superlatively his estimate of his sweetheart’s sexual equipment, often refers to it as angel-food cake.
at angel food (n.) under angel, n.
[US] G. Johnson ‘Double Meaning in the Popular Negro Blues’ in Jrnl Abnormal & Social Psychology Apr.-June 14: Other symbols [‘for the female organs’'] are keyhole and bread. The former is found infrequently, but the latter, sometimes found as cookie and cake, is almost as common as jelly roll in everyday Negro slang.
at cookie, n.1
[US] G. Johnson ‘Double Meaning in the Popular Negro Blues’ in Jrnl Abnormal & Social Psychology Apr.-June 16: ‘Daddy, come on ease it to me.’ Here the woman requests the man to perform the act in an ‘easy’ way.
at ease, v.1
[US] G. Johnson ‘Double Meaning in the Popular Negro Blues’ in Jrnl Abnormal & Social Psychology Apr.-June 16: ‘Easy rider.’ This apt expression is used to describe a man whose movements in coitus are easy and satisfying. It is frequently met both in Negro folk songs and in formal songs.
at easy rider, n.1
[US] G. Johnson ‘Double Meaning in the Popular Negro Blues’ in Jrnl Abnormal & Social Psychology Apr.-June 15: [note] Jazz music originated in Negro pleasure houses—’jazz houses’, as they are sometimes called by Negroes.
at jazz house (n.) under jazz, n.
[US] G. Johnson ‘Double Meaning in the Popular Negro Blues’ in Jrnl Abnormal & Social Psychology Apr.-June 14: Other symbols [‘for the female organs’'] are keyhole and bread. The former is found infrequently, but the latter, sometimes found as cookie and cake, is almost as common as jelly roll in everyday Negro slang.
at keyhole, n.
[US] G. Johnson ‘Double Meaning in the Popular Negro Blues’ in Jrnl Abnormal & Social Psychology Apr.-June 16: [note] A note on ‘shake the shimmy’ may be of interest here. Chemise is pronounced ‘shimmy’ by most Negroes and a great many whites in the South. In its original meaning it described the effect produced when a woman made a movement or did a dance step which caused her breasts to shake. This caused her shimmy to shake.
at shimmy, n.1
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